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Category: Teaching

  • Comic Life Windows

    Plaq, the creators of Comic Life have rolled out a Windows version of their great little app, Comic Life. Using comics is a great way to make information accessible to a greater range of students and it also allows students a great way to express themselves. It’s in beta, but worth looking at.

  • Cone of learning and mlearning

    This is something that I was thinking about with all the talk of twitter and the like as well as mLearning last week. The Cone of Learning (Edgar Dale) (fancier) suggest that interaction is something that is critical to learning. Linked with mLearning, being able to be in the field doing and then getting a…

  • Facebook cohorts

    I mentioned that I am going to start to look into using Facebook as a means of organizing a cohort of students so that they have a place that they can get to know each other and start to care about (read b***h and whine) their experiences at the same time they are interacting with…

  • Discussion is the De….

    One of the things that I keep coming back to here when I talk to profs and instructors, especially those in large classes, is that discussion is something that should be part of every course, and every course can make use of discussion. Why? Because there is passion or controversy in every subject. there is…

  • Facebook vs email

    I started to take a look at Facebook as a way that we could help to establish some improved feeling of connection between TA groups as well as a cohort program. I’m also wondering if the Facebook API can’t be used to create a stripped down version of the main site that will in a…